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Your dashboard has 40 things on it. Your buyer has room for one.
A founder showed me his new product last week. Glass panels, soft gradients, a blue glow behind the chart. Best-looking thing I'd seen all month.
I asked what a user is supposed to do in the first 30 seconds.
Long pause.
That pause is what every new user feels. They just don't stay long enough to tell you about it.
Beautiful UI and clear UI are different skills. One wins design awards. The other wins the moment someone decides your software is worth learning.
So when I cut a product video, I never start with "how do we make this look premium." I start with: which single number on this screen changes a decision? Then I dim everything else.
Usually that means killing the visual weight of a screen the team spent four months building. That call is never fun.
But the cut gets 20 seconds shorter, and people stop asking what the product does.
Pretty is cheap now — everyone owns the same gradients.
Clarity is the last expensive thing.
#saasmarketing #productmarketing #motiondesign
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